I just saw a video of an AI executive saying that people will connect their brains to the cloud so they can have 1,000 times more thoughts.

[artists_ali@sunny.garden]

@alter_unicorn TRUE!

[woozle@toot.cat]

@Artists_Ali If I let them have some of my thoughts, will they do something with them? I never have enough time...

[lp0_on_fire@social.linux.pizza]

@Epic_Null @Shdwdrgn @Artists_Ali, I guarantee that Thoughts will shove that Thoughts+ one into subscribers' brains whenever it can, and that far too many will… have it thought for them… that they should pay for it. And they will.

(Also, release the hypnodrones.)

[6@possum.city]

@Artists_Ali@sunny.garden mmm, more thoughts at same speed will saturate the bandwidth and suck ass
but if you could "overclock" brains, THEN it could maybe allow for like...3x more thoughts...lol

adhd is fun but...wait what was i saying?

[shdwdrgn@tech.lgbt]

@Artists_Ali I wish I had an answer to that, I would love to be able to help everyone. I guess my focus in life has just been that I'm gonna be happy and fuck everyone else. There's so much scary shit in life and I just have to ignore what I can't change. Maybe I just put up too many walls. If I could hold everyone and make the bad shit go away, I would. I don't have answers, but I have a kind ear willing to listen and talk.

[shdwdrgn@tech.lgbt]

@lp0_on_fire @Epic_Null @Artists_Ali Heh that's exactly why I don't trust Musk and those sorts... I'm trying to develop my own methods that I can actually control.

[elexia@catcatnya.com]

@Artists_Ali more thoughts is in fact not more better

[umbreon@donphan.social]

@Artists_Ali also even if you could wrangle 1,000 simultaneous thoughts at once.... what would you do with it? People are limited to one thing at a time most of the time.

[staticr@guild.pmdcollab.org]

@Artists_Ali https://guild.pmdcollab.org/@StaticR/115858757833938526

[renardboy@mastodon.social]

@StaticR @Artists_Ali tbf coming up with smart ideas largely involves permutating over combinations of simple concepts until something good pops out. That or I'm just not as smart as I think I am, which is a real possibility.

[fgbjr@indieweb.social]

@Artists_Ali I was thinking exactly the same thing. Having 1,000 times more ideas doesn't mean there's necessarily going to be a good one among them. It'll sure keep a person busy though.

[mrgrumpymonkey@mastodon.social]

@Artists_Ali So this is the latest grift?

[mrrmot@oldbytes.space]

@Artists_Ali i mean, The Black Cloud was only written [checks notes] seventy years ago, you can't expect people to have actually learned from it yet...

[mrrmot@oldbytes.space]

@Artists_Ali And yes, of course I know the similarity is a bit far-fetched; today's "scientists" are not even suggesting plugging into anything remotely intelligent...

[rednikki@toot.boston]

@Artists_Ali This sounds like an AI executive that has done a LOT of coke.

[xarvos@outerheaven.club]

@Artists_Ali@sunny.garden makes me think of the chapter from sandman where a man was punished by given too many ideas

[oldfartrant@mstdn.ca]

@Artists_Ali these AI creeps are absolutely nuts. If a brain is connected to a computer, it could be controlled by that computer. This is how the Borg will be created.

[staticr@guild.pmdcollab.org]

@renardboy @Artists_Ali honestly the difficult thing isn't coming up with ideas it's figuring out how to make them work, and then actually executing on it.

In the right context literally any idea can work well.

[renardboy@mastodon.social]

@StaticR @Artists_Ali very true, but then any meaningful ability to do that stuff is acquired by experience, which is also kind of a trial and error process.

[reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden]

@Artists_Ali For a breakdown, of those "1000 times more thoughts", about 30% are cat videos playing on repeat, 10% are songs randomly starting to play in your mind, and about 60% are remembering that one time you were awkward 10 to 20 years ago and still beating yourself up over it as every other soul on this wet rock floating in space forgot about it